Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/04
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At 09:33 PM 9/3/99 -0700, you wrote:
>The hull
>was bright white and the water near the pier looked almost black, so what do
>you meter on? The haze added a little more uncertainty to trying to estimate
>the exposure. So I took an incident reading next to the boat with the Luna
>Pro pointed half way between the sun and where I would stand with the
>camera.
Gary,
In those kinds of situations, I meter the bright white and make the
exposure 2 - 2 1/2 stops overexposed for that white. An incident meter will
know nothing about how white the boat is, and how dark the water is, and
could very well put you right in the middle where neither is exposed
properly. When shooting slide film, the white boat has to be kept at 2 1/2
stops over or less, or it's a blown out mass of nothing. If the water is
too dark, well, that's not as bad as blowing out the white. Experienced
photographers can handle any situation with a reflected meter.
Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability
to understand it. -Sam Abell; "Stay This Moment"